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Brighton Pathways to Health
Diane Macchiavelli
Mind | Body Practices
Health Points Blog
Asian Body Work
Nutrition & Dietary Support
Athletic Enhancement
Acupuncture treats:
Chronic pain, illness
Women's reproductive health
Depression, anxiety, mental & emotional disturbances
Sports injuries, sprains, strains
Urogenital dysfunctions
Acupuncture supports:
General well-being
Classical Five-Element Acupuncture
Acupuncture is the oldest and most effective non-drug form of healthcare in the world. Brighton Pathways offers Classical Five-Element Acupuncture to assess and treat the root cause of illnesses and conditions at the body, mind, and spirit levels. Treatment helps patients move back into balance and harmony within themselves, their emotions, and their life.
Classical Acupuncturist Diane Macchiavelli uses the Laws of Nature to diagnose, treat, and assist healing by freeing your energy to align your body, mind, and spirit. The treatment Diane provides ultimately engenders health and well-being within you and ameliorates your symptoms.
To identify disharmony in the energy of your body, Diane uses the four classical diagnostics—See, Hear, Ask, and Feel—along with pulse diagnosis and odor, color, sound, and motion assessment to determine the root cause of your imbalance.
Diane diagnoses blocks between the meridians of energy that flow like rivers throughout the body. She assesses which of the Five Elements is predominantly out of balance and how this affects you. She will then use treatment to support your spirit through unique choices of acupuncture points.
Acupuncture does not cause any ill side effects; at worst, there is no effect. Also, there is little to no risk when you receive acupuncture from Diane, a licensed New York State practitioner that adheres to a clean needle protocol. She uses pre-sterilized, one-time-use disposable acupuncture needles that conform to all New York State Department of Health regulations.
Acupuncture needles are super-fine, pre-sterilized, solid, surgical quality filaments inserted into the surface of the skin. They are not at all like hypodermic needles used by your physician to draw blood or inject fluids. When the needle accesses the blocked energy of the acupuncture point, patients may experience a sensation of warmth spreading, a momentary dull ache, a slight tingle, or nothing at all. These feelings may be different from one side of the body to the other and from one treatment to the next.
"Moxibustion is like warming the house before the guest arrives."
— Prof. J.R. Worsley
Very warming, calming, and relaxing, traditional Chinese moxibustion heat therapy is a perfect example of yin-yang balance in action!
An important component of Worsley-style Classical Five-Element Acupuncture, moxibustion enhances and increases one's health through the use of Chinese mugwort, also called moxa. A medicinal herb, moxa strengthens the blood and stimulates and tonifies the flow of qi throughout the body, mind, and spirit. Similar to warming the house before a guest arrives, moxibustion makes the body more accessible to the work of the needle.
The practitioner rolls the finely milled mugwort into a small bead-sized cone, places it directly on the skin at the acupuncture point, and then lights it with an incense stick. The practitioner remains present at all times, watching and listening carefully so she can immediately remove the mugwort when the patient first feels its warmth. The practitioner then repeats the process with a new cone of moxa until reaching the prescribed allowable number of moxas for each acupuncture point. The distinct smell of pungent smokiness lingers after treatment.
Moxibustion is sometimes performed by using a cigar-shaped moxa roll that is lit and held and/or moved over precise areas of the body. This particular method is widely known to be useful in turning breeched babies prior to labor.
Auricular Acupuncture treats:
Stress-related illness
Substance abuse and addictions
The human ear is a microsystem with special acupuncture points to treat the entire body. Auricular acupuncture stimulates these points using very small hair-like needles. Clients sit comfortably and quietly, fully clothed, either in silence or listening to relaxing music for a minimum of 30–45 minutes.
Asian Bodywork treats:
Respiratory conditions, such as colds, cough, bronchitis, asthma, emphysema
Muscle, tendon or ligament damage
Sluggish circulation
Headaches, migraines
Digestive disorders, such as nausea, constipation, diarrhea, slow motility,
Stiffness, aches, pain,
Urinary, gynecological disorders
Asian Bodywork
Asian Bodywork Therapy (ABT) is the treatment of the human body/mind/spirit, including the electromagnetic or energetic field, which surrounds, infuses, and brings that body to life, by pressure and or manipulation. Diane Macchiavelli offers the following traditional ABT techniques and treatment strategies for the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health.
The art of Jin Shin Jyutsu® physio-philosophy gently balances the flow of Universal life energy in the body. In contrast to the mechanical delivery of many oriental massage and healing techniques, Jin Shin Jyutsu is an art. Practitioners apply minimal pressure to the tissue to create a connection with 26 safety energy locks in the body to redirect or unblock the unlimited Universal energy pathways. This awakening bestows the awareness of complete harmony within the self and the universe upon the recipient.
Tui Na is a hands-on treatment that uses Chinese Taoist and martial art principles to bring the body to balance. To balance the eight principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the practitioner may brush, knead, roll/press, and rub the areas between each of the joints, known as the Eight Gates. These techniques open the body's defensive (wei) chi and get the energy moving in the meridians as well as the muscles.
In Chinese, Gua Sha translates to scrape away. Extremely common in all Asian countries, this ancient medical treatment has the same or similar effect as cupping.
Gua Sha involves putting oil balm on the skin and then applying slight pressure with a small hand tool to scrape or skim along with the muscles or the pathway of the acupuncture meridians in circular or upward and downward motions. This technique releases blood into the surrounding tissue, sometimes leaving temporary marks on the skin that fade within hours of treatment. While the marks left like bruises, they are not hematomas. Patients typically feel an immediate sense of relief and change to their muscle tension, aches, and pains.
Symptoms of imbalance:
Menstrual dysfunctions
Menopause difficulties
Monthly mood swings
PMS, PDD, PID
Polycystic Ovarian Condition
From the beginning of menstruation to post-menopause, Classical Chinese Medicine supports women's reproductive cycles throughout their lifetimes.
Fertility is an increasing concern for women of all ages and nationalities and their partners. For more than 20 years, Diane Macchiavelli has helped women and men achieve parenthood by integrating Classical Five-Element Acupuncture, Chinese herbs, and dietary and nutritional therapies.
Diane also uses these methods to address and successfully treat women's postpartum conditions, which often go unrecognized and undiagnosed. Even years after pregnancy and delivery, the onset of many conditions like depression, anxiety, and other functional physical conditions like migraines, can be traced back to lack of proper care after giving birth.
Symptoms of a nutritional imbalance:
Mood swings, mental & emotional disorders
Skin conditions: dry, red, itchy skin; eczema
Constipation, diarrhea
Weight gain, obesity
Body aches, pains
Hormonal imbalances
Menstrual difficulties
Headaches, migraines, cluster headaches
Bloating, cramping
Foul breath
Nutrition and Dietary Support
Each person has unique nutritional needs. Two universal principles in Chinese Medicine describe and aid in understanding those needs: The Law of Five Elements, and the Law of Yin and Yang.
Every food item has a set of qualities that describe the action of the food, such as warming, cooling, stimulating, and so forth. Diane recommends foods and herbs, depending on the season and the condition and needs of the person.
Living in a post-industrialized, modern society leaves us regularly exposed to toxins in our food, air, and water. Mass-produced foods grown in depleted, mineral-deficient, and chemical-laden soil provide little to no nutritional value. The availability of refined and over-processed foods loaded with sugar and caffeine but lacking in quality causes an alarming degree of obesity in the United States. Lastly, increasingly sedentary lifestyles added to the mix and it's no wonder people feel empty, depleted, and exhausted.
Start with the right foods and nutritional products.
Diane has over 20 years of personal and clinical experience with a variety of nutritional and dietary products and thoroughly vets all the brands she uses and recommends as a practitioner. She is an authorized distributor for some and recommends others that are readily available at the local grocery or natural food stores, including FDA-approved and manufactured dietary products such as herbs, supplements, homeopathic, and other remedies.
To learn more about this important aspect of a healthy lifestyle, contact Diane.
Acupuncture, Tai chi, yoga, massage, proper nutrition, and herbs optimize the internal and external physical performance of your body. These modalities successfully treat for peak performance and also treat any resultant injuries that might occur along the way.
Acupuncture and Tai chi successfully treat Orthopedic issues such as joint, bone, muscle, ligament and tendon damage. If surgery is necessary, acupuncture and Chinese herbs are the perfect adjuncts to help the surgery go smoother and to assist and speed up the healing process post-surgery. We offer a safe and time-tested Chinese Herbal pre- and post-surgery protocol that works!
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Chu: 'Damaging' Sequester Would 'Decelerate the Clean Energy Economy'
DOE Secretary Steven Chu warns that sequestration would put thousands of people out of work, kill important research projects, and make the grid less secure.
Stephen Lacey February 19, 2013
Stephen Lacey
Stephen Lacey is a contributing editor with Greentech Media. He is also the founder and executive producer of Post Script Media. Lacey produces and hosts The Energy Gang and Interchange podcasts, two of the most popular podcasts on energy and cleantech.
Strike up a conversation with a random person in a Washington, D.C. bar these days, and the chitchat is likely to circle around to the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts set to hit federal agencies in March.
With 30 percent of D.C. residents working for the government, chances are good that that person is facing a major cut in pay or possible loss of a job.
In 2011, Congress set what some call a fiscal and economic "ticking time bomb" known as the sequester. In order to force themselves to eventually agree on a budget deal, lawmakers set up automatic budget cuts that would set a deadline for action. Those abrupt cuts, warned the Bipartisan Policy Center, would "reduce U.S. gross domestic product by roughly half a percentage point in 2013 and cause more than one million jobs to be lost over the course of two years."
A deal has not materialized in Congress to replace the sequester. So federal agencies are scrambling to put plans in place as they brace for steep cuts.
Agency heads are also lobbying lawmakers and warning them of the consequences of such cuts.
The Department of Energy, once flush with money after a surge in clean energy investments through the stimulus package, is already preparing for major structural changes. In a letter to leading senators earlier this month, DOE Secretary Steven Chu warned that sudden cuts would be "disastrous" to the agency's R&D programs, clean energy deployment programs, and job training efforts.
Writing to Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Chu said the looming sequester would "decelerate the nation's transition into a clean energy economy, and could weaken efforts to become more energy independent and energy secure."
Here's how Chu described how the office of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency would be impacted:
The Department of Energy works across energy sectors to reduce the cost and speed the adoption of clean energy technologies. These efforts range from cost-competitive high-efficiency solar installations to carbon capture and storage to next generation biofuels and high-efficiency vehicle technologies. Under sequestration, funding reductions would decelerate the Nation's transition into a clean energy economy, and could weaken efforts to become more energy independent and energy secure, while spurring overall economic growth. For example, a reduction in funding would slow growth down the significant advances made in making solar energy cost-competitive with conventional forms of electricity generation, as well as cut funding for solar industry job training that is targeted at military veterans and provided to 261 community colleges.
It would also hinder U.S. innovation as global markets for solar energy continue to grow rapidly and become more competitive. In addition, a cut to the Department's Vehicle Technologies Program would delay the program's efforts to leapfrog the current technologies in critical areas of advanced vehicles, batteries, and lightweight materials, slowing American development of cleaner and more efficient vehicles as affordable as today's vehicles. Reducing the cost of manufacturing these clean energy technologies is a key goal of the Administration's efforts and sequestration would negatively impact our Advanced Manufacturing program by delaying initiation of 2-3 industrial research and development project co-investments for at least a year or requiring shutting down a Manufacturing Demonstration Facility for 6-8 months.
Further, the Department of Energy provides assistance to low-income families by making their homes more energy efficient through funding provided by States, territories, and tribes. Funding reductions under sequestration will reduce by more than a thousand the number of homes that would be weatherized in FY 2013 and could result in the unemployment of 1,200 skilled weatherization professionals. Reductions in the magnitude associated with sequestration likely would also threaten the ongoing viability of some State programs delivering these home efficiency upgrades, closing the associated training centers, with a concurrent loss of professional retrofit certification capability.
In just four years Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) projects have achieved significant technical breakthroughs, including doubling the energy density of lithium batteries, dramatically shrinking the size and increasing the capacity of high-power transistors, and engineering microbes that can turn hydrogen and carbon dioxide into transportation fuel. Reduced funding in the clean energy area would scale back the Department's ability to spur such accomplishments, slowing progress toward a transformed, 21st Century energy sector.
The Department works to improve the security and reliability of the Nation's electrical grid by working with utilities and transmission and distribution companies to reduce risk of impacts from natural disasters, cyber attacks, and other human-generated events. Reduced funding would scale back these efforts, including research to detect and mitigate cyber attacks and monitoring of space weather events through deployment of technology and facilitating information sharing within the electricity sector on best practices for protection and/or mitigation when such solar flares occur.
Chu also outlined the impact to government labs doing basic research and development:
DOE's Office of Science is the largest supporter of the physical sciences in the United States and the operator of 10 world-class national laboratories. Funding cuts to DOE's basic science mission would be severe. First, operations at numerous facilities would be curtailed, potentially impacting more than 25,000 researchers and operations personnel who rely on these facilities to make advances both in basic science and in developing advanced commercial technologies. Second, sequestration would cause schedule delays and increased costs for new construction of user facilities throughout the Office of Science that are poised to contribute significantly to many ares of our understanding of nature. Finally, research grants would need to be reduced both in number and size affecting the researchers at our national laboratories and at universities around the country; the pipeline of support for graduate student and post-graduate research fellowships would be constricted in a way that hurts our long-term economic and technological competitiveness.
Both parties generally agree that the sequester would be a bad thing. But with still no deal in sight, the Department of Energy and other agencies are issuing their last-minute pleas to Congress.
You can read the full letter here.

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Sony resellers stick with AIT tape
At the official launch of Sony's AIT-5 tape technology in Los Angeles, resellers say they are sticking with the product, despite previous bumps in the road.
Jo Maitland
Sony Electronics Inc. hasn't made it easy in recent years for its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners, resellers and users to adopt its Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) tape technology. But with the global launch of AIT-5 in Los Angeles last week, the company said it is back on track with compatibility, and most partners said they will stick with the product, despite the recent bumps in the road.
To briefly recap, the previous version of Sony's AIT product, AIT-4, was launched in July 2004, but backward compatibility issues plagued sales of this product. The drive heads could be damaged when using AIT-1, -2 or -3 media in AIT-4 drives, and Sony couldn't guarantee 100% reliability. The company came up with a bridge product to close the gap, but it was a workaround and added complexity for users.
"We didn't do what we needed to do with AIT-4, but with AIT-5, we are correcting that," said Michael Nixon, senior manager for OEM marketing in Sony's tape division.
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AIT-5 drives are read and write backward compatible with AIT-4, AIT-3Ex and AIT-3 media, and support WORM formats when required, the company said. AIT-5 features more than 1 terabyte (TB) of capacity on a compressed cartridge (400 GB native) and approximately 62 megabytes per second (MBps) of throughput, compressed.
Compared with its Linear Tape-Open (LTO) and digital linear tape (DLT) equivalents, AIT-5's main selling point is its size, according to Nixon. Based on the 8 mm format, an AIT-5 drive can fit in a 3.5-inch drive bay, Nixon said, whereas most LTO and DLT drives require a full 5.25-inch slot. That's especially important for rack-mount servers where real estate is at a premium, he said. And compared to similarly sized digital Data Storage (DDS) or Digital Audio Tape (DAT)72 cartridges, AIT-5 holds more data: 1.04 TB versus a modest 72 GB.
Further improvements include a new dynamic tracking feature to control relative head position to the tape media with an actuator, enabling each head to trace the narrow track path for more precise and accurate reading, according to Nixon. In addition, an automatic head cleaning system and a "soft touch" tape loading mechanism improve the reliability of the product, the company said. The drive cooling system is isolated from the tape mechanism, limiting airborne contaminants from entering the tape path and affecting reliability. And AIT-5 drive's mean time between failures (MTBF) is an impressive 400,000 hours at 100% duty cycle.
As far as the roadmap goes, Nixon said the company is working hard on AIT-6, which will offer 800 GB native, backward compatibility with AIT-4 and AIT-5 and should be available in the next 24-30 months.
Jacques Guilloton, regional vice president for Bell Microproducts Inc. southwest division, said AIT technology is still a great product despite the recent compatibility issues. "All products go through a lifecycle, and if you don't reevaluate technology you could be cutting off your nose to spite your face." He added that more Bell Micro partners are sticking with the product than not.
Another big Sony tape partner, Tech Data Corp., plans to distribute AIT-5 as soon as it's available. "We've been through the bumps with AIT-4, but we carry a lot of Sony, it makes sense business-wise for us to have it in our portfolio," said Stephanie Palinkas Kohler, marketing manager, peripherals at Tech Data.
Users, meanwhile, are waiting for the price to come down. Tommie Hill, senior supervisor of transit operations for the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, has AIT tape installed in video surveillance systems on 100 of the company's 300 buses. "AIT-5 makes the system too expensive; the tape drive alone would be half of the cost of the system at this point," Hill said. He added that Kansas City has just passed a bill to build a light rail network, which means it could standardize video surveillance across the buses and trains. AIT-5 "may be affordable by then," he said.
Similarly, Nathan Yakobovitch, director of global strategic purchasing for Nice Systems Ltd., which builds video surveillance systems, is impressed with AIT technology but cannot afford the latest version. "We are not yet at AIT-5, unless the price will go down," he said. Nice Systems switched from DDS to AIT several years ago and saw failure rates decrease from 5% to 6% to less than half a percent, according to Yakobovitch. "For cost purposes, we use AIT-1," he said.
Analysts said Sony has done a decent job of repairing its compatibility problems but note that AIT-5 is up for a stiff battle against the incumbent LTO makers. Robert Amatruda, research manager, tape and removable storage at IDC Corp., said AIT-5's density and small footprint "puts it in good stead" to compete on its technical merits, but in the end, "it may not be about technology." According to a recent report by Freeman Reports, the percentage of tape libraries shipping with LTO drives increased to 81% in 2005, up from 73% the year before. By 2010, Freeman Reports predicts LTO will ship in 86% of libraries.
On top of this trend, Bob Abraham, president of Freeman Reports, points to the rapid consolidation in the marketplace and the declining growth of tape, adding to Sony's challenge. There were 72 tape drive manufacturers in 1990, according to Abraham, and now there are seven. On the plus side, he noted that Sony manufactures all the components of its product, meaning that it is at least in control of its own destiny.
Part two: Should you abandon DDS for AIT? – SearchStorage
Sony unveils AIT-3, preps for Super AIT – SearchStorage
Sony releases fourth-generation AIT tape – ComputerWeekly.com


If you have anyone who depends on you financially, then life insurance should be a major consideration. Life insurance can be used for income replacement, estate tax planning, legacy planning, and business succession planning. Life insurance comes in many forms and the costs, structures, durations, etc., vary tremendously across the types of policies. Based on your specific needs, we can customize an insurance plan that will give you an optimal amount of coverage for the most affordable price.
The average New Jersey family has less than 3 times (2.867 times) income covered in life insurance.
Do you have enough life insurance? How do you know?
*To learn about the different types of life insurance, go to the "My Blog" section and read "Selecting Life Insurance to Best Suit Your Needs".
· The unified estate and gift tax exemption amount is $11,400,000 (up from $11,180,000 in 2018). Estates are taxed at a maximum rate of 40% (same as in 2018). Portability between married couples still applies if elected, increasing the exemption to $22,800,000 (up from $22,360,000 in 2018).
· The exemption from the Generation Skipping Transfer tax is $11,400,000 (up from $11,180,000 in 2018).
· The Annual Gift Tax Exclusion will remain the same at $15,000 for individuals, and $30,000 for married couples who split their gifts.
+ Changes to both the Estate Tax exemption and the Generation Skipping Transfer Tax exemption will sunset after 2025, and will revert to their 2017 numbers - adjusted for inflation.
*Please consult an estate attorney or CPA for specific information on the tax code.
Your most important asset is not your home, your car, or other possessions. It's your ability to earn a living. All of your plans for the future—from buying a home to putting your kids through college to building a retirement nest egg—are based on the assumption that you will continue to earn a paycheck until you retire. But what would happen if those paychecks stopped? That's where disability insurance comes in. Should you become too sick or hurt and can't work, a personal disability income insurance policy can provide you and your family peace of mind knowing that your standard of living can be maintained.
"One in three Americans between the ages 35 and 65 will become disabled for more than 90 days."
Small business owners can also benefit from specific types of disability income insurance policies. Business Overhead Expense (BOE) policies can reimburse the business owner most of the recurring monthly expenses attributed to "keeping the doors open and the lights on" of the business, should the owner become too sick or hurt to tend to the company's daily operations. Key Person disability insurance policies can provide most companies crucial benefits to protect the business from financial hardships, as a result of a temporary loss of a key employee or key salesperson due to a disability.


When visiting the Costa Brava, it's more than likely that the trip will include a visit to Girona. Located only a 38-minute train ride from Barcelona, it makes a perfect day trip. And, it's a beautiful and historic city. To make the most of a trip, here are our top Girona travel tips.
Girona lies at the confluence of two rivers, the River Ter to the west, and the River Onyar, which divides the main part of the city. East of the River Onyar is Barri Vell or the Old Town. Barri Vell's riverfront is flanked by three and four-story, brightly painted buildings, which feature prominently in traveler's photos.
Most of the tourist sites focus on the medieval parts of town in Barri Vell. The River Onyar offers a half dozen unique bridges to cross, allowing travelers to wander in and out of Barri Vell, past museums, restaurants, bars, and cafes, with plenty of shopping as well. Most notable of the bridges are the old stone bridge, along with a red bridge that looks a little like a horizontal version of the Eiffel Tower. And, that's because it Mr. Eiffel designed it himself.
Overlooking the entire city is the Girona Cathedral, dedicated to Santa Maria, which offers Romanesque and Baroque architecture. Just below it is the Basilica de Sant Feliu, and a statue of a lion that you might see tourists and children kissing, for good luck. Just across the bridge from the Basilica is the Plaça de la Independència, filled with cafes and restaurants set under historic porticos.
And, with so much food and wine to drink during a culinary tour of the Costa Brava, Girona offers a perfect mix of city life and nature, with plenty of biking and walking tours spreading out from the city center. The Girona tourism office offers maps of walking trails.


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Music: Talos
8pm | Thursday 22nd June
Talos is Eoin French, from Cork in Ireland. He makes patient, plaintive electronic pop music. He arrived in late 2014, with the mesmerising 'Tethered Bones', the dreamy production proved a perfect platform for French's powerful voice and rewarding words. Follow-up releases 'In Time' and the 'O Sanctum' EP founds fans across the board.
After being tipped by Hot Press as One to Watch in 2017, the Cork architect released a new single, 'Odyssey', on February 17. It's a swirling, romantic slice of poised electronic pop that builds to a contradictorily euphoric climax, one that belies the self-doubt at the heart of the track. It comes ahead of the release of his debut album, 'Wild Alee', on April 21.
Live, Talos expands to a six-piece and – following shows at Longitude, Body and Soul, Electric Picnic, a sold out Whelan's in December 2016, alongside international dates in Eurosonic, London and New York – he has announced a nine-date Irish run in support of the debut album
Doors 8pm – Tickets €10


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Watch Live: Vice President Biden Calls on Senate to Move on Supreme Court Confirmation
By Julia Zorthian
March 24, 2016 11:48 AM EDT
Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday will urge the Senate to act on Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination in a timely manner.
Biden's remarks to Georgetown Law School students and faculty mark a high profile attempt to pressure the Senate into confirming a replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February. He will argue that President Barack Obama has "has fully discharged his constitutional obligation" in nominating Garland during an election year, according to remarks released by the Vice President's office.
"Our democracy rests on the twin pillars of basic fairness and equal justice under law," Biden will say. "The longer this high court vacancy remains unfilled, the more serious a problem we will face."
He is scheduled speak at 12:30pm EST. Watch the full remarks live on this page.
Write to Julia Zorthian at julia.zorthian@time.com.
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Home News BREAKING: Resident doctors begin indefinite strike
BREAKING: Resident doctors begin indefinite strike
Doctors under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have unanimously agreed to embark on an indefinite strike from Monday, August 2, 2021.××
This is coming at a very critical time when the country is currently experiencing a rise in COVID-19 infections; the signal of a third wave of the pandemic.
The doctors reached the decision after their National Executive Council (NEC) meeting by over 50 members across the country.
They noted the Federal Government has failed to honour and implement the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) it signed with them after over 100 days.
The doctors particularly demanded immediate withdrawal of the circular removing House Officers from the scheme of service, which was not implemented.
President of the NARD, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, who made these known in a statement, also noted despite efforts by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila to ensure the Medical Residency Training Funds is captured in the supplementary budget, the Federal Government has failed to disburse the funds to its members.
He said: "The NEC noted the suspension of the total indefinite strike action One Hundred and Thirteen (113) days ago due to Government promises as entailed in the Memorandum of Actions (MOA) signed at the instance of the Minister of Labour, Sen. Dr Chris Ngige.
"The NEC also noted the efforts of the Hon Speaker of the House of Representatives in ensuring that the Medical Residency Training Funds is captured in the supplementary budget. They however frowned at the delay by the Federal Government in disbursing the funds to our members.
"They decried the undue hardship our members on GIFMIS platform are facing due to the delays in payment of their salaries ranging from three to seven months.
"The NEC noted that despite Government's promise to migrate her members from the GIFMIS to the IPPIS platform, they are still stuck on the GIFMIS platform which is laced with payment irregularities.
"The NEC noted with grievous concerns the circular from the Head of Service of the Federation removing House Officers from the scheme of service and the consequent implementation by the Lagos State Government. They also observed that some House Officers are still being owed 1-2 months' salaries.
"The NEC noted that bench fee for outside postings by Resident Doctors has been abolished, however, some Chief Medical Directors have renamed the bench fee as training fee causing hardship on her members.
"NEC noted that with regards to the non-payment of the National Minimum Wage Consequential Adjustment, the list of affected institutions and personnel strength had since been submitted to the Federal Ministry of Health as directed by the MOA signed with the Federal Government yet nothing has been done."
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Volvo turns to its performance division to provide its hybrids with range-topping performance
by: Sam Jenkins
Volvo's performance offshoot, Polestar, is well into its performance hybrid offensive, having announced production dates for both its Model 3-rivalling 2 and 600bhp 1. Ties with its origins haven't been completely severed, however, as Volvo is now offering fettled 'Polestar Engineered' variants of its hybrid range.
Available for electrified versions of the S60 mid-sized saloon, V60 estate and XC60 SUV, the Polestar tweaks add more power, aesthetic enhancements and performance-boosting components. These upgrades make the Polestar Engineered S60 T8 the fastest-accelerating production Volvo ever.
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Power from the brand's T8 Twin Engine plug-in hybrid powertrain has been taken from 390bhp to just shy of 400 and 494lb ft of torque, figures that apply to all three models. The S60 will now sprint from standstill to 62mph in 4.4sec, the V60 in 4.6 and the XC60 SUV in a respectable 5.4 – all whilst achieving a pure-electric range of 27.3 miles.
Aside from a bump in power, Polestar's boffins have also given the models uprated Brembo or Akebono brakes, complete with recognisably Polestar gold calipers. Öhlins adjustable shock absorbers and strut bars (lifted straight from the 600bhp Polestar 1), lightweight forged wheels (19-inch for S60 and V60, 21-inch for XC60), and a fettled automatic transmission for quicker shifts are also included.
Elsewhere, the models see the addition of various aesthetic enhancements to set them apart from their standard counterparts. A more aggressive black front grille surround, black chrome exhaust tips, gold accents and Polestar branding is added throughout. A handful of equipment, usually optional, also comes as standard on Polestar Engineered cars.
Matt Galvin, Volvo Car UK's sales director, said: 'These new Polestar Engineered cars perfectly illustrate Volvo's approach to electrified performance. By combining a powerful plug-in hybrid set-up with the engineering expertise of Polestar, they offer scintillating performance with the ability to run in electric-only mode, thus creating no tailpipe emissions.'
Pricing for the Polestar Engineered S60, V60 and XC60 sits at £56,105, £57,205 and £64,545 respectively.
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When Mike Treen, the National Director of the 'Unite Union' in New Zealand arrived at the airport in the capital, Auckland, on August 1, a group of people were anxiously waiting for him at the terminal with Palestinian flags and flowers. They hugged him, chanted for Palestinian freedom and performed the customary native Haka dance.
For them, Mike, as all of those who set sail aboard the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza last July, were heroes.
But the truth is Mike Treen and his comrades were not the only heroes for braving the sea with the aim of breaking the hermetic Israeli military blockade on the impoverished and isolated Gaza Strip. Without those who were present at the Auckland airport, upon Mike's arrival, and without the thousands of supporters all across the world who have mobilized as a community - held numerous meetings, raised funds, created a powerful media discourse, and so on - Treen's attempted trip to Gaza would not have been possible in the first place.
The first boats to successfully break the Gaza siege, in October, 2008 were the 'Free Gaza' and the 'Liberty'. They carried 44 people from 17 countries. The activists wanted to push their countries to acknowledge the illegality of the Israeli blockade on Gaza and to, eventually, challenge the siege.
Their triumphant arrival in Gaza ten years ago, marked a historic moment for the international solidarity movement, a moment, perhaps, unparalleled. Since then, Israel has launched several massive and deadly wars on Gaza. The first war took place merely weeks after the arrival of the first boats, followed by another war in 2012 and, the deadliest of them all, in 2014. The siege grew tighter.
Also, since then, many attempts have been made at breaking the siege. Between 2008 and 2016, 31 boats have sailed to Gaza from many destination, all intercepted, their cargo seized and their passengers mistreated. The most tragic of these incidents was in May 2010 when the Israeli navy attacked the 'Mavi Marmara' ship - which sailed alongside other boats - killing 10 activists and wounding many more.
Even then, the stream of solidarity boats continued to arrive, not only unhindered by the fear of Israeli retribution, but also stronger in their resolve. Palestinians consider the killed activists as 'martyrs' to be added to their own growing list of martyrs.
However, none of the boats made it to Gaza; so why keep on trying?
Last May, I arrived in New Zealand as part of a book tour that took me to other countries as well. However, in New Zealand, a relatively small Pacific island with a population that does not exceed five million people, the solidarity with Palestine was exceptional.
I asked about the strong Palestine solidarity work in New Zealand, inquiring with the coordinator for 'Kia Ora Gaza', Roger Fowler, who, at the time, was busy with final preparations for the Freedom Flotilla.
In New Zealand, he said, "for many years support for the Palestinian struggle lingered, often perceived as being too distant, and falsely portrayed as being 'too complicated'. But the global outrage at Israel's murderous attack on the 'Mavi Marmara'-led humanitarian flotilla to Gaza in 2010 was a major turning-point that changed all that."
Fowler, himself, along with other New Zealand activists joined the 'Lifeline to Gaza' convoy soon after the attack on the 'Mavi Marmara', reaching Gaza with three ambulances, packed with badly needed medicine, as the Israeli siege also deprived the Strip of hospital equipment and urgently needed medicine. Coordinating all of this was not a simple task as it also needed to be streamlined with the global efforts for the convoy, which included the dispatching of 140 other ambulances and 300 activists arriving from 30 countries.
"There were many moving scenes as Palestinians learned how far we had come from to offer solidarity - their Israel overlords had told the Palestinians for years that nobody cared about them, which is a big line," Fowler told me.
I also spoke with Mike Treen upon his return from his Gaza sea journey. Treen is a seasoned activist, who works daily at defending the rights of workers from across the country. He sees his struggle for workers' rights in New Zealand as part and parcel of his global solidarity outlook as well.
"In my role as part of the union movement in this country, I was also able to explain (to New Zealanders) that innocent working people (in Gaza) are the victims of this siege and that Israel has driven unemployment to over 50% for working people - one of the highest rates in the world," he told me.
Treen, just like Fowler, understands that the boat solidarity is not merely an issue of providing urgently needed supplies, but as a well-coordinated effort at exposing the evils of the Israeli blockade.
"Unless Israel is directly bombing Gaza, the siege and its hideous human implications simply drop off the radar of public consciousness," he said.
And this is precisely the real mission of the Gaza flotillas: While Israel wants to normalize the Gaza siege as it is currently normalizing its Occupation and Apartheid regimes, the solidarity movement has created a counter discourse that constantly foils Israeli plans.
In other words, whether the boats arrive on the Gaza coast or are hijacked by the Israeli navy, it makes little difference.
The power and effectiveness of this kind of solidarity goes even beyond Gaza and Palestine. "Our involvement in international solidarity endeavors, such as the Freedom Flotillas has, in turn, sparked a resurgence in other important elements of building the strength of the world-wide movement for justice", Fowler told me, soon after Treen's return to New Zealand.
Mike Treen also has his work cut out for him as he is now busy engaging the media and various communities in his own country, sharing his experiences on the boat, which led to his arrest, beating, tasering and deportation.
And like the horrific Apartheid regime in South Africa, the Israeli Apartheid will collapse, too, because Palestinians continue to resist and because millions of people, like Mike and Roger, are standing by their side.


BAGERHAT: Police recovered the body of a 2-and-half-month baby boy who was kidnapped for ransom on March 11, from inside a toilet of a fish enclosure at Bisharighat village in Morrelganj upazila on Sunday, reports UNB.
The victim was identified as Abdullah, son of Sirajul Islam Sohag of the area.
Police arrested the mastermind of the kidnapping bid Hridoy alias Rahat Chaprashi, 22, from Dhaka over an abduction case on Saturday. Police recovered the infant's body from the toilet on Sunday noon, said Pankaj Sharan, Superintendent of Bagerhat Police.
According to case statement, on the early hours of March 11, the criminals entered Sohag's house cutting grill of the window while the child was sleeping with his parents.
Later, victim's father Sohag filed an abduction case with Morrelganj Police Station. Police on Wednesday last arrested Hridoy's mother Nasima Beg, 52, sister Abir Begum, 14, and brothers Mahiuddin Chaprashi, 35, Faijul Chaprashi, 25, Deloar Hossain, 30, and Rubel in this connection.
The body was sent to Bagerhat Sadar Hospital for autopsy, said the police super, adding that police will seek remand to Hridoy after producing him before it soon.


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San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín Airport is Puerto Rico's largest airport, it handles 90% of the number of passengers in the country. The airport is named after Luis Muñoz Marín (1898 – 1980), the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico. San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín Airport is the Caribbean's busiest airport after Punta Cana Airport in the Dominican Republic and Havana Airport in Cuba. San Juan has two international airports, Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci Airport (Isla Grande Airport) is much smaller and only used for regional flights.
Where is San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín Airport situated?
San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín Airport is located in Carolina, east of San Juan. The cities of Trujillo Alto, Guaynabo, Bayamón and Cataño are also close by.
How many terminals does San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín Airport have?
The airport has one terminal divided in four zones called Terminal A, Terminal B, Terminal C and Terminal D. San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín Airport is a well-arranged airport, everything is located within walking distance of each other.
The distance from San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín Airport to the centre of San Juan is 13 kilometres. By car, it takes 25 minutes to get to the centre of San Juan.
From SJU Airport to San Juan City centre by Car
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San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín Airport offers various official parking options, from premium to low cost. In addition, alternative parking options are available near the airport. If you want to park as cheaply as possible, it's wise to book online!
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Located inside San Juan International Airport in Terminal D, within steps from Airline Terminals. No Shuttle required, the San Juan Airport Hotel offers spacious, air-conditioned rooms with free hot breakfast and free high-speed Wi-Fi.
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Now with the new Android version launched, it is expected to see all the upcoming high-end devices to feature the latest version. New reports suggest that the Galaxy Note 3 would follow the trend.
According to the sources, it has been confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 would ship with Android v4.3 out of the box. Samsung has apparently started testing the Android version 4.3 internally and is sure to pre-install the OS build on its upcoming phablet.
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Poll: Do you have a motorhome reversing camera or sensors?
A motorhome reversing camera or sensors will not only help making parking or pitching up easier – it could also reduce your chances of an unwanted bump or scrape.
Each year we deal with many accidental damage insurance claims, which are often caused by a reversing mishap. Many could have been avoided if there had been an early warning sign from a motorhome reversing camera or sensor.
In our latest community poll, we'd simply like to know if you have a reversing camera or sensors fitted to your motorhome, or if you'd consider having either fitted?
Do you have a motorhome reversing camera?
As always feel free to share more about the type of camera or sensors you have on your motorhome and if they have helped you avoid any damage to your pride and joy. Add your comments in the box below.
Plus, don't forget we offer a motorhome insurance discount for owners who do have a reversing camera or sensors fitted to their leisure vehicle.
We'll report back the poll results in August.
I have a rear view / reversing camera and find it invaluable but nevertheless it is inadequate for reversing off the road into my narrow driveway and today I will be seeking a suitable reversing sensor kit – I don't want the variety with an on-dashboard display, just a buzzer to alert me when I'm too close to the bits the camera can't see. Like others, I find the camera (a Sony dual-lens) is severely affected by rain or by dazzling lights behind me at night: If anyone knows of a better camera, please post details! It is also inadequate when reversing towards a sloping bank and I have had to repair the skirt corner mouldings on each side of my Swift "Escape". I should have let my wife guide me!
If anyone has a solution to my biggest problem, again, please post it! In my small drive I have to park (behind a high hedge) at 45 degrees to the road and so I cannot see pedestrians on the pavement or cars on the road until the front of my 'van is almost on the road. I have read somewhere of someone with a similar problem installing a rear-view camera, suitably angled) at the very front of the over-cab but the firm that supplied my system advised against it: any thoughts, anyone?
I have a reversing camera on the motorhome but sensors on the car. I keep finding myself listening for the beep in the motorhome – maybe I need to have sensors fitted to it too! I find it's not always easy to judge distance with the camera alone so often enlist the passenger's help as well.
It's a shame they don't work well in all lights Briann. We'll feedback your comments to Swift.
We also take a pair of walkie-talkies. In difficult situations it's nothing like having someone on the end of the walkie-talkie to describe what is going on.
How do sensors cope with the extra depth of a dual cycle carrier ?
I would imagine a cycle carrier might interfere with the operation of the sensors. It's worth speaking to your motorhome manufacturer or an electronics company which specialises in vehicle sensors. Any of our blog readers got any advice for Mike?
My wife walks to the back of the camper van and helps when I am reversing in tight areas. Unfortunately my insurance company does not give me any discount for this excellent facility !!!
I have both on my motorhome but also I have an integrated rear camera which is handy to see vehicles right up close.Also checks the bikes are still there.
I have a dual camera setup allowing for rear view whilst driving and downwards view for parking. I also have reversing sensors with audible beep. I fitted all myself to an older motorhome and must admit i would really struggle without them! I am able to reverse park onto my awkward driveway on my own with ease now. Apart from the head unit stereo (monitor) all other items can be purchased cheaply and fitted by any DIY capable person. An absolute must in my opinion. I still manage to miss judge height now and then and catch a sign or tree branch. Any suggestions to overcome this?
Hi Ben, we're stuck for a suggestion on avoiding signs or branches. There are some 360 degree cameras now and maybe those would help. Wonder if any of our other blog readers might have ideas?
My reversing camera has saved many a potential scrape. Most recently, a pitch was overshadowed by tree branches and although the way was clear to reverse, it was not obvious that the branches were too low for my motorhome. A quick glance at the monitor whilst reversing avoided a disagreement with the tree.
Thanks for the comment Philip. A big thumbs up for reversing cameras!
A reversing camera is a boon – we have one,but even with one there is no better way of preventing the back end saying "hello" to an obstacle than the passenger getting out and watching also.
Common sense suggests anything to improve all round visibility is a good thing.
Hi we've added the option to vote for 'both fitted' on the poll now. Thanks for letting us know.


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My friend John McElwee over at Greenbriar Picture Shows, in his current post on John Ford's Stagecoach, mentions (as he often does, with clear affection) his hometown Liberty Theatre, which ran Stagecoach in April 1939 and is still showing movies today. He doesn't know how I envy him, having a childhood movie haunt still around to revisit and savor. Of all the movie theaters I frequented in the first thirty years of my life, I can count on the fingers of one hand the ones that are currently in operation — and I'd still have at least a thumb and pinkie left over.
First and rosiest among these memories, my childhood home-away-from-home, was the Stamm Theatre in Antioch, Calif., a small town nestled in the hills of Contra Costa County about 40 miles east of San Francisco. Antioch is a lot bigger now, and has overrun many of those hills, but in the 1950s the population hovered just under 20,000 and the Stamm was the movie house of choice. The Stamm's Moderne marquee tower, shown here in a recent photo, still stands, its futuristic spire looking like the nose of a Flash Gordon rocket ship pointed at the stars — albeit with the original colors (which I remember as red, chartreuse, dark green and gold) muted to a conservative gray and white. It was once a landmark in town, especially at night in its mostly residential neighborhood, and it adorned the Stamm's daily ads in the Antioch Ledger. The Stamm was where I'd rather be most of the time. One Sunday in 1959, I passed up my first chance at an airplane ride; my father had chartered a small private plane to take the family on a fly-around of the county, but I preferred to spend the afternoon at the Stamm watching Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
There was another, older theater in town, the El Campanil, opened in 1928 as a combination vaudeville and moving picture house, shown here in a postcard image from the 1930s. By the 1950s the El Campanil was open only intermittently, alternating movies with live performances by local community theater companies (I saw my father perform there in Curse You, Jack Dalton and You Can't Take It with You) and other performing groups; my dance teacher held her annual student recitals there, and I first performed on the El Campanil stage at age six, tap dancing to "You're a Grand Old Flag" in a red-and-blue sateen toy-soldier uniform. As for movies, my mother and uncle took me there to see a reissue of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (on a double bill with, of all things, Abbott and Costello in Buck Privates), and I remember attending the occasional Saturday kiddie matinee there.
But most of the time, Saturday afternoons or not, it was the Stamm. It was movies all year round there, and the house itself was — at least to my young eyes — homier and more welcoming than the Spanish-themed, cavernous and rather forbidding El Campanil. I wish I could give you some illustrations of the Stamm's warm red-and-green interior, but the Stamm family seems to have neglected to photograph it before the building was gutted to the bare concrete walls in the late 1990s. All I have are some copies-of-copies provided to me by the Theatre Historical Society of America (THSA) in Elmhurst, Ill. (click the link to visit their Web site and learn of their worthy mission) of an article that appeared in the "Better Theatres" section of Motion Picture Herald on February 5, 1949, as the Stamm was first opening for business.
Here, for example, is a picture of the exterior during the run of Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, very possibly the feature that inaugurated the theater. (UPDATE 6/16/15: My uncle attended the Stamm when it was brand new, to see Station West with Dick Powell and Jane Greer. He remembers that as the Stamm's first program, and I suspect he's probably right.) If you don't mind going afield to see some images I can't reproduce here, there's a copyrighted picture of the Stamm from 1986 here (scroll down) that shows the original red formica-covered doors. Combine that with this ad for Gulistan carpets from the Feb. 5, '49 Motion Picture Herald and, if you imagine the doors and walls red and that Gulistan carpet in two-tone pale green, you'll get an idea of the feel of the Stamm's lobby. At the right edge of the ad, you can see the steps leading down to the "lounge area" and the unseen men's (left) and women's (right) restrooms. [UPDATE NO. 2, 11/27/10: The link to the Gulistan carpet ad is now dead; if I can track the picture down, I'll correct the link. — JL]
UPDATE NO. 3, 3/18/14: Joe Vogel of Cinema Treasures has kindly shared a repaired link to that Gulistan carpets ad; the ad can now be seen here as part of an online archival copy of that issue of Motion Picture Herald. But better than that, now I'm able to reproduce the ad, and here it is. As I said, the carpet is two-tone green, the doors red with brass handles and baseboards and milk-glass window slits. The far wall is also red, the ceiling and sofa ivory-colored, as is the far wall leading off to the auditorium. Compare this picture of the lobby with the copy of the floor plan below and you have a pretty clear idea of the layout. And check out that sofa! In those days, most of my friends and I wished our living rooms were this comfy.
UPDATE NO. 4, 1/28/22: All the links in the previous two paragraphs are now dead. (Who ever said the Internet was permanent, eh?) Except one: Joe Vogel's profile page is still there, as is the rest of the Cinema Treasures Web site. In fact, you can find a photo of the Stamm from 1974 here. In that image (taken, incidentally, by my great-uncle Chuck Dowell, and posted to Cinema Treasures by his son, my cousin John) the place is much as I remember it — the red leather doors and the free-standing box office have not yet been removed, and best of all, the Stamm's dazzling neon sign and marquee are blazing away, lighting up the theater's sleepy residential neighborhood and looking like they can be seen all the way to San Francisco. The photos tab on this page provides more images.
Here's one of them, posted to Cinema Treasures by Prof. David Ducay. This shows the Stamm's free-standing box office, which was removed (probably for security reasons) sometime in the late 1970s or early '80s. You can see the menu board with admission prices hanging in the front window. What you can't see to the right of that, lost in the glare, was one of the box office's distinctive features: two clocks, one showing "Time Is Now," the other showing "This Show Out" — telling you when the continuous show would cycle around to where you came in. Very convenient for parents dropping you off who wanted to know when to come back and get you. (I've often wondered if those two spring-driven clocks, each ticking away independently, ever drove the cashier nuts in that enclosed space.) The sign over the door behind the box office shows that the year is 1956, when King Vidor's War and Peace was playing. Don't know how I missed that one, but I did.
And here's the Stamm's "Refreshment Nook", photographed (Prof. Ducay tells us) in 1959. In those days you could get a 4-cup box of popcorn for ten cents, a 10-oz. cold soft drink (no ice, no lid, no straw) for another dime, and a 1.25-oz. box of candy for a nickel — Welch's Pom Poms (faux Milk Duds, basically) were my favorite; my brother Jack preferred Junior Mints. On the wall behind the clerk on the left you can see an ad for Ice Cream Bon-Bons; we would occasionally indulge in those — if we were willing and able to part with the princely sum of fifteen cents.
But let's get back to that Gulistan ad with its view of the lobby. To help you orient it to this copy of the floor plan, the camera is near the top center of this image, next to the Refreshment Nook, with the lounge and restrooms off to the right. (UPDATE 10/10/22: This floor plan, as well as the photo above of the marquee showing Kiss the Blood Off My Hands and the auditorium views below, are from that multi-generational photocopy of the Motion Picture Herald of 2/5/49; I continue to search for an original copy of that issue in hopes of obtaining better images.)
Not that we spent much time in the lobby or the lounge. The main attraction, naturally, was the auditorium, divided between a main floor of about 900 seats and a loge section seating another 208, where for an extra 25 cents over the regular adult admission you could sit in raked stadium seating in plush rocking-chair comfort. Since a child admission was only a quarter, my brother and I naturally preferred to rough it in the regular chairs down below — we were only kids and those seats were plenty big enough for us and closer to the screen. Besides, we had other things (like popcorn, candy and sodas) to spend the extra money on.
Here are two views of the Stamm's auditorium, first from the stage looking back, then (below) from the back looking at the screen. You can just glimpse the Rockwell Kent-style murals on the walls of fishermen casting nets, farmers sowing seeds, and women at flowing Art Moderne wells. They were lit by ultraviolet sidelights that gave them (and the teeth and clothes of people in the audience) an eerie blue glow.
By the time I came along, the Stamm had converted to CinemaScope, so the proscenium and screen I knew were much wider than in this picture from 1949. Still, the house looks much as I remember it. If I squint very hard and jam my imagination into Warp Eight, I can almost believe I see the little hole in the center of the stage through which a microphone would rise whenever Mr. Stamm wanted to stalk out and tell us we were making too much noise, and if we didn't quiet down like nice little ladies and gentlemen, he'd turn off the movie and make us all go home.
I have one more memento of the Stamm Theatre, shared with me by the artist, Gary Lee Parks of the THSA, and used here by permission. When Mr. Parks's request to photograph the Stamm's alfresco paintings was refused by the Stamm family, he did the next best thing. He bought an admission ticket, then sat in the audience with his sketchbook and pencil and copied one of the paintings in black and white, making color notes, which he turned into a full-color rendering as soon as he got home. (The movie he sat through, by the way, was The Coneheads; such dedication!) This painting can just barely be discerned as a dim smudge on the left side of the view above, the one facing the screen. I can vouch that Mr. Parks's recreation is accurate; this painting remains particularly well-remembered by me — for obvious reasons (this was, after all, the 1950s). To tell the truth, the recollection of this picture glowing in the unearthly blacklight of that auditorium may have almost as much to do with my vivid memories of the Stamm as the movies I saw there.
The Stamm is gone now — all but that looming facade — converted wall-to-wall into an Apostolic Church. Paradoxically, the El Campanil survives virtually intact (compare this recent photo with the 1930s postcard above). It is once again a multi-use performing arts center (just as it was when I was a 6-year-old tap dancer), saved from the wrecking ball by a citizens' preservation drive in 2003.
Not enough people cared to preserve the Stamm, evidently; it was doomed, no doubt, by its late-'40s movies-only design. But in its day — and probably for some time after its day had passed — it was where you went if you wanted to see a movie anywhere around Antioch.
The Stamm — 11 Comments
David Mayne on April 25, 2013 at 7:09 am said:
Jim, email me at [email protected] if you can, I run a movie website and we do live radio shows. I think a show about the stamm and other antioch theaters would be a blast! Let me know if you're interested. BTW, I still cannot get into the Stamm!
Anonymous on February 11, 2013 at 2:20 am said:
I was an usherette at both the El Campaniel and the "New" Stamm Theater. Am surprized that the "Stamm"m no longer remains. Jiggs Del Coletti was the manager at both theaters when I worked there.
Jim Lane on February 22, 2012 at 8:43 pm said:
And by the way, Dave: If you do manage to track down any pictures, especially of the interior, that you're able to share, I'll be happy to post them here!
Yes, Dave, it's true: gutted to the bare concrete walls; I saw it with my own teary eyes in 1999 or so. Worse yet, the Stamm family refused permission to photograph the interior beforehand. Their dog-in-the-manger attitude baffles me. But then, my father had dealings with George Stamm in the 1950s, and his memories of the man were not fond.
Dave on February 22, 2012 at 7:54 pm said:
I work about 2 minutes away from the Stamm and also was a regular when i was a kid, even saw Empire Strikes Back here! Great memories. When it was converted to a "church" I was heartbroken, and the mystique of this place still looms heavy in my imagination. If it is true that they gutted the inside (which I don't doubt), its a damn shame. I recently went down to the church and asked to look inside, stating that I just wanted to take a look for old times sake, and they refused me entry. Will post again if I can dig up more info…AND hopefully pictures.


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So along with challah, the thing I bake most often in the winter are gingersnaps. We LOVE ginger at my house. Curious to see how these compare with my favorite recipe.
I just read the recipe. its a roll-and-cut cookie recipe? I'm really not into that. Do you think it would work if I made a log and just sliced off circles?
I was thinking the same thing. I might try popping it in the freezer for half an hour or so to really firm it up before slicing though.
I just did it – the dough is really wet and I had kind of a hard time forming it into a log. I put it inside a paper towel roll to try to keep the shape and I'm going to transfer it to the freezer from the fridge when I get up in the morning I think. Also, unlike everything else I've made from this book, this recipe makes a very small amount. I like it!
okay, that dough is too wet! i reduce the water in my batch of 4x the recipe from 6 tablespoons to 5 tablespoons and i would go further, perhaps as low as 4 tablespoons. that would be 1 tablespoon per batch of dough. baking time/temp do not seem accurate either. i baked at 350 rather than 325 and they still took nearly double the time. and yes, my oven is accurate and i use a thermometer.
My dough wasn't wet – soft and sticky I would say. My cookies also took longer to cook. They never did achieve the "snap".
I hate to hear that the dough is wet. I was hoping to make cut out cookies. Yikes.
I just made the dough and it s sticky. The roll out will require a lot of flour.
Mine are in the oven right now – I put the log in the freezer for about an hour and a half while I made other cookies and then just tried to slice it as fast as I could with my sharpest knife. It seemed to work just fine.
They're really cute! I baked them for about 11 minutes, rotating the two sheets after 6 minutes. I left them on the baking sheets for a few minutes to set up, then transferred to the cooling rack. I had run out of molasses so I did a little drizzle glaze afterwards with powdered sugar. I'm really happy with how they turned out.
I just baked a few cookies and used a tree, gingerbread boy and star cookie cutter. I rolled the dough out on parchment, and worked fast. They taste delicious. I froze the rest of the dough to make the balance of the cookies next week.
I wish I would have made a few more cookies today. They are very good. I guess I will have to wait until next week.
i quadrupled the ginger, doubled the cinnamon and added other spices. it helped!
Smart. The only detectable flavor is the molasses.
being in the south, i used sorghum. it has a milder taste and less color than molasses.
Just made the dough. It is surely a small amount of dough! Made two batches…and increased the cinnamon and ginger. Seems crazy to have so little spices in a gingersnap cookie! Will be baking them tomorrow.
did a little almost-last minute baking today. based on above comments, I doubled the spices and just used 1tablespoon water. I left off the molasses glaze and used sanding sugar instead. I think they make a fine little cookie to nibble on.
Not a fan; I made the White Bread the same day to soothe my baking soul!


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Energy Information Administration's Annual Energy Outlook published
Date posted: 4th Feb 2019
The US Energy Information Administration has published its Annual Energy Outlook for this year. It predicts that, as energy demand grows more slowly than production, the USA will become a net energy exporter – primarily through gas and oil – by 2020, and will remain so until at least 2050, the end of its outlook horizon. This will mark a notable change for the US, which has been a net importer since 1953. Gas prices will remain low by historical standards, leading to more switching to it as a fuel, both domestically and internationally, but the US will remain a coal exporter, though coal exports "are not expected to increase". For power generation, gas is expected to increase its share of the mix from the current 34% to 39% by 2050, while coal is expected to fall from 28% to 17% (no new coal capacity is forecast for the entire outlook horizon). Nuclear, too, is expected to fall, from 19% to 12%, with the most major rise being in renewables, rising from the current 18% to 31% by 2050. With total output also increasing, the share rises mean larger outputs (renewables, for example, are predicted to rise from 700 billion kWh per year to around 1700 billion kWh by 2050), whereas the share falls will mean only slightly falling absolute outputs. Costs for renewables will continue to fall, such that even with subsidies for them withdrawn, they will be cost competitive. Solar photovoltaics and wind will continue to dominate, solar especially. Carbon dioxide intensities of industrial energy use are expected to decline further, and absolute CO2, NOx and SOx emissions are expected to decline slightly (after the significant falls of the 2000s) before levelling off.
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Something to remember, please!
BEFORE I discuss the Clare-Limerick match, I'd like to talk about something else; do the people who decide on these venues need geography lessons?
The Munster championship game that should have been in Thurles, Clare-Waterford, was held in Limerick; the game that should have been held in Limerick - tomorrow's semi-final - is in Thurles.
What's going on? Do these people not realise that Thurles is about halfway between Clare and Waterford, and so would have been a fairer venue for Waterford instead of Limerick? Do they not realise that the Gaelic Grounds is as near to Clare as it is to Limerick? I'd say most Clare hurling fans are nearer the Gaelic Grounds than most Limerick fans. What sort of nonsense is this? The road to Thurles is going to be fairly clogged tomorrow morning, that's for sure. I know there will be a fair few Limerick people coming from the Tipperary side, but most supporters will be going the one road – I wonder if any of those who decided to fix this for Thurles will be caught up in that traffic?
Economically it would have been fairer on both sets of fans to have the game in Limerick, not to mention the business it would have brought to the city. When the Clare/Waterford match was set for Limerick the fans stayed away – maybe the same thing will happen tomorrow, though I hope not.
Another amazing thing – this is a local derby, so much traditional rivalry between Clare and Limerick, yet I've hardly seen a green-and-white flag in any of the border parishes, nor saffron-and-blue. Plenty of Munster rugby red, but what's happening to the GAA rivalries?
Is the spark going out of the Munster championship? If Clare and Limerick don't do something to spice up this year's fare, we're in trouble. Tipp and Cork was a curate's egg, good in parts, while Clare and Waterford was over long before the final whistle – we need a big match now.
Both teams need to throw off the shackles, let it rip, have a cut. Express yourselves in a manly way, in a Munster championship-style way; don't be afraid, don't be paralysed. Entertain us.
People have been raving about Euro 2008 for the past couple of weeks, how the players are enjoying a new freedom of expression – let's have the same in Semple Stadium. With that in mind, hopefully the ref won't be too whistle-happy.
The match? I don't think Limerick got enough credit last year for their All-Ireland semi-final win over Waterford. People said Waterford were tired after their two-game battle with Cork – I don't agree with that. Limerick were simply the better team, and I also believe that if Limerick had Damien Reale in the Munster final they'd have beaten Waterford there too. He'd have made a huge difference in that game.
This year Limerick must build on what they got last year; the league meant nothing to them, as was obvious from the way they approached it. They want to get back to Croke Park, and that journey starts tomorrow.
Expectation in the county is high, and rightly so. One worry for them though is the loss of Brian Geary at centre-back. He was a massive player for them last year, but is still a few weeks away from recovering from his cruciate injury. I hear people saying, 'Limerick needed to find new players and didn't' - but maybe they didn't need to find them in the first place, maybe they have those players in their ranks all along.
Now is the time for the likes of Donncha Sheehan, Paudie O'Dwyer and Seán O'Connor to step forward. Limerick have made a good move in shifting Seamus Hickey to wing-back, and I wouldn't even be surprised if he finishes the game in the centre.
I don't think their forwards will line out as selected; don't be surprised to see Niall Moran at full-forward and Seán O'Connor on the wing. Limerick need a big game from Ollie Moran, and I think they'll get it. He always seems to play well in championship, and especially in Thurles.
Then you have the man in the middle who was nearly an All-Star last year, Donal O'Grady – he must have a big game as well, as must Mike O'Brien beside him.
Clare? I'm looking at that backline and despite the way it's lined out, I'd be very surprised if they break up the half-back line that did so well against Waterford. Brendan Bugler was outstanding at wing-back that day and is now in the corner, but I'd leave him where he was.
The big question from the nine-point win over Waterford, were Clare that good or Waterford that bad? Well, the forwards scored 2-26 but they got massive room from the Waterford defence – the Limerick backs won't be so generous.
Will the midfielders, Colin Lynch and Brian O'Connell, have it as easy against O'Brien and O'Grady? I don't think so.
This will be a huge physical battle; Clare have big men all over the field, in every line, but Limerick have their share of big men also. On fitness they're evenly matched, the same with experience, and while Thurles is a different pitch to the Gaelic Grounds, both teams thrive there.
I heard a Limerick man and a Tipperary man recently discussing where the Munster final will be held – did they think Clare are going to lie down here? I don't think so. There is huge pressure on Limerick to drive on from last year.
How will it end? I wouldn't be surprised if there's a replay but I just think that Limerick, having lost two finals last year (Munster and the All-Ireland), have more to lose. They might just edge it.
More than anything else though I just wish both teams stand up and give this a lash. A repeat of '96 would do very nicely!
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TICKETS for tomorrow's Munster SHC semi-final are still available for sale through Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.
Adult and juvenile stand tickets will be available to purchase, while stocks last, tomorrow from 12 noon at ticket outlets around the grounds, including Dr Morris Park (Kinnane Stand/Killinan Terrace corner), Sarsfield Pitch (Kinnane Stand/Town Terrace corner) and Handball Centre (Ó Riain Stand/Town Terrace corner).
Terrace tickets only will be available from the ticket office at the Borrisoleigh Road entrance (Ó Riain Stand/Killinan Terrace corner).
Supporters are advised that fully automated turnstiles will be in use at the Kinnane Stand for the first time in the newly-developed Semple Stadium, which is the first stadium in Ireland to use such technology.
Ticket holders will be able to scan their tickets and gain entry to the Kinnane stand automatically.